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Knot Yet: Getting married later can have economic costs, benefits
Americans are getting married at ever-older ages, and a new report says this trend may be partly responsible for the shrinking of the middle class. On average, brides are 26.5 years old and grooms are 28.7 when they head to the alter, according to the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Brookings Institution, Family, Education, University of Virginia
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Dr. William F. House dies at 89; championed cochlear implant
Dr. William F. House, a dentist-turned-ear specialist who 50 years ago defied the medical establishment and many advocates for the hearing impaired to champion an implantable device, now widely accepted, that made everyday sounds audible to the profoundly...
Tags: Ear, Nose, and Throat, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Cape Canaveral, Research, Rush Limbaugh
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Martin Fleischmann dies at 85; claimed cold-fusion success
Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons thought they were going to change the energy world forever.
On March 23, 1989, they announced at a news conference at the University of Utah that they had discovered a tabletop process for producing nuclear fusion at...Tags: Colleges and Universities, England, Parkinson's Disease, Research, Education
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Stephen R. Covey dies at 79; wrote influential self-help bestseller
Stephen R. Covey, a former Brigham Young University business professor who blended personal self-help and management theory in a massive bestseller, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," died Monday at a hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was 79....
Tags: Politics, Bill Clinton, FranklinCovey Company, Business, Government
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Judy Wright dies at 72; 'Ms. Claremont' wrote two books about city
After moving west from Illinois in 1972, Judy Wright turned into a civic leader and amateur historian whose active role in her community earned her a telling nickname: "Ms. Claremont."
She arrived as a "faculty wife" whose husband taught economics at...Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Chicago, New Year's Day, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Megan Judson and Nate Vereb
Megan Judson and Nate Vereb had been good friends since 2008, when they were classmates at Buena High School in Ventura. But after graduation, Judson had taken off for Brigham Young University in Utah.
When she came home that summer, their friendship...Tags: California State University, Northridge
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Firefighters try to contain Cajon Pass fire; I-15 open
L.A. NOWFirefighters on Saturday were trying to contain a 1,200-acre brush fire in the Cajon Pass. Traffic on Interstate 15, which was closed for parts of Friday due to the fire, was flowing Saturday morning, but officials said more closures are possible... -
People who need people live longer
It's pretty clear that eating a healthy diet, exercising, not smoking and not drinking to excess are factors linked to longevity. Perhaps the most ignored but potentially powerful strategy, however, is being a social butterfly. In a study published...Tags: Health, Tobacco Addiction, Education, Healthy Diet, Obesity
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Social support network may add to longevity
The best medicine for a longer, healthier life may be the support of family and friends: That's the conclusion of an exhaustive July report looking at studies over three decades on social relationships and mortality.
People with adequate social...Tags: Health, Health and Medical Professionals, Hormones and Metabolism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Family
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Richard B. Wirthlin dies at 80; pollster and strategist helped steer Reagan's political career
Richard B. Wirthlin, a pollster and strategist whose research, particularly on voters' personal values, helped steer Ronald Reagan's political career from his early years as California governor through his two terms in the White House, has died. He turned...Tags: Politics, Lyndon B. Johnson, Values, Nancy Reagan, Research
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Brigham Young museum readies exhibition of Christ paintings by Carl Bloch
Culture MonsterIf the Mormon church has a favorite artist, it may be 19th century Danish painter Carl Heinrich Bloch, whose florid depictions of the life of Jesus Christ are often featured in literature and other promotional material published by the Church...... -
UCLA women's soccer team plays top-seeded Stanford in third round of NCAA tourney Friday
The Fabulous ForumThe UCLA women's soccer team, which entered the 64-team NCAA championship tournament unranked for the first time since 1999, has advanced to the third round and will play top-seeded Stanford (20-0-2) on Friday at 7 p.m. at Stanford. When the......
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